FINER £125
OPIUM SMUGGLING
(Per Press Association —• Copv r iQht .)
AUCKLAND, March 16
I Alexander Richardson, 39, a steward, | pleaded guilty to-day to a charge of iimporting on March 15, ten eight ounce tins of prepared'opium. The collector of customs’ said information was 'received that opium was being imported' in. the Marama and that a steward was likely i 0 have it. Tiro detectives followed accusecT, and accosted him while talking to two i Chinese in a street. He admitted that two parcels that he carried contained opium,- and remarked he was “only the mug.” He was going to get £ 62 | 6r the opium. Accused had .nothing to say and was fined' £125, in default three months’.
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 March 1933, Page 6
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117FINER £125 Hokitika Guardian, 16 March 1933, Page 6
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